I don't demo AI. I ship it: tested, on-device and in production.
Anyone can prompt a prototype now. I've spent the years since 2009 making technology hold up in the real world: 12 years at T-Mobile, ending as Principal Engineer for immersive devices, spatial computing for the U.S. Army, and named inventor on granted US patents.
Today I build with AI to production standards. AuraTranslator runs real-time Portuguese-to-English captions fully on-device on Qualcomm's NPU in about 1.5 seconds, and I demoed it live to Qualcomm and Google. Ashti.ai is live with paying users, and 400+ automated tests and blocking privacy and security checks gate every release. NIFly is on the App Store.
Today I build with AI to production standards. I've designed AI and data governance frameworks aligned to NIST, ISO 27001 and GDPR, and for the U.S. Army deployed secure, containerized XR platforms aligned to DoD frameworks (RMF/NIST). Ashti.ai is live with paying users, and 400+ automated tests and blocking privacy and security checks gate every release.
Today I build with AI to production standards. I'm a Google Android XR Trusted Tester, selected after winning the Google Android XR hackathon. On XREAL Project Aura, AuraTranslator runs real-time Portuguese-to-English captions fully on-device on Qualcomm's NPU in about 1.5 seconds, and I demoed it live to Qualcomm and Google. NIFly is on the App Store.
// About
With a career spanning XR, 6G, AI, and accessibility infrastructure, I specialize in transforming bleeding-edge technology into real-world platforms. From authoring patents to launching scalable ventures, I've spent years developing the real-time, spatially aware systems required to redefine how we connect and collaborate.
I'm currently Founder of Relay Spatial, building real-time sign-language interpretation by digital humans for broadcast, XR and mobile, starting with Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) for Portuguese TV, to help broadcasters meet the European Accessibility Act. I'm also a Google Android XR Trusted Tester after winning the Google Android XR hackathon, building on-device AI for XREAL Project Aura on the Qualcomm NPU.
Previously, I spent 12+ years at T-Mobile, most recently as Principal Engineer for Immersive Devices & Services, leading the development of AR/VR/XR and immersive IoT tools that shaped the company's immersive devices roadmap. I'm also the founder of the Lisbon XR User Group, fostering the next wave of spatial innovation in Europe's fastest-growing tech hub.
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) isn't just a mandate. It's a catalyst for better design. My mission: as we build the spatial web, we build it to be accessible, secure, and future-ready.
// Work With Me
While I lead Relay Spatial and build my own products, I take on select contract engineering and architecture roles. If your team is navigating spatial computing, edge AI or production-grade software delivery, I bring over 15 years of enterprise experience directly to your project.
AI that runs where it matters: locally, privately and fast. Drawing on translation models I optimized for the Qualcomm Hexagon NPU and a self-hosted DGX Spark lab, I help teams move from slow, expensive cloud APIs to privacy-preserving edge deployments.
From 6G research to Google Android XR Trusted Tester work, I architect spatial experiences that hold up in the real world, for hardware makers and software teams, including platforms aligned to enterprise and DoD (RMF/NIST) security frameworks.
Building on my recent contract with Barr Group and my years as Dev/Ops Manager at T-Mobile, I provide senior Python and TypeScript engineering with an uncompromising focus on shipping reliable code.
Bring me in when it has to work, stay secure and still be running after launch.
// Ventures
Real-time sign-language interpretation by digital humans for broadcast, XR and mobile, starting with Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) for Portuguese TV.
Built to help broadcasters meet the European Accessibility Act. Portuguese patent pending. Selected for the UnitedXR Europe Booster Program for Builders (Brussels, Dec 2026).
A live AI-guided mediation platform for couples, co-founders and teams, with paying users.
Each party talks to the AI in its own private room, the AI writes the joint resolution, and that privacy is enforced in code and verified in CI.
Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Prisma 7 on Neon Postgres, Pinecone RAG, Vercel AI Gateway (Llama 3.3 70B, GPT-5), Stripe, Upstash. Blocking CI gates for privacy and security invariants and two-party race conditions, plus AI code review; 289 unit and 112 end-to-end tests.
Real-time Portuguese→English captions on XREAL Project Aura glasses (Google Android XR Trusted Tester, 2026). Runs entirely on the Snapdragon puck with no cloud, about 1.5 s end-to-end.
Whisper-Large-V3-Turbo runs on the Qualcomm Hexagon NPU through ONNX Runtime's QNN Execution Provider, and Opus-MT (Marian) handles translation on the CPU. One of the first third-party NPU workloads shipped in-process on this device class.
Solved undocumented integration: QNN from an app process, uint16 quantized I/O over JNI, and KV-cache decoding on fixed-shape NPU graphs. Hardened with VAD, hallucination gates, speaker diarization and thermal throttling. Spatial captions built in Jetpack Compose for XR.
iPhone app, live on the App Store (Nov 2026). Shows your Portuguese NIF at the till as a barcode, large digits or speech.
Swift 6, SwiftUI, WidgetKit, App Intents (Siri/Shortcuts/Control Center), StoreKit 2; no server. 145 unit tests and 29 UI tests, including an accessibility audit. v1.0 on the App Store (Nov 2026).
An ambient TV/tablet board that shows what your AI coding agents are doing in real time (2026).
Claude Code hooks stream events to a native Swift macOS hub (signed and notarized, releases 3.5–3.7), which pushes a live board over WebSocket to a SwiftUI tvOS/iPadOS viewer that pairs over Bonjour, using a versioned wire protocol.
3.7 adds deterministic "tripwire" checks of agents' claims against the evidence. Next.js site on Vercel with beta signup and gated download. 217 unit tests.
A medical-chronology tool for personal-injury attorneys: it turns a spreadsheet export of hundreds of treatment encounters into a visual timeline that holds up in a courtroom.
Python backend, Astro/JS front end, self-hosted with a release pipeline and nightly backups.
// Projects
// Intellectual Property
View the full patent portfolio on Google Patents ↗.
// Experience
// Expertise
// Connect
Currently accepting inquiries for contract engineering, fractional XR architecture and AI consulting. See how I can help ↑
// Events
Workshops, meetups, and talks on spatial computing, XR accessibility, and AI.
